Iakovos Kambanellis

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Iakovos Kampanellis

Iakovos Kambanellis ( Greek Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης , born December 2, 1921 in Chora on the island of Naxos ; † March 29, 2011 in Athens ) was a Greek playwright , screenwriter , poet and writer .

life and work

He was arrested in Austria in 1943 and taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria, where he was imprisoned until the camp was liberated by the Allies on May 5, 1945. He described the time shortly before the liberation and the following months in his novel Mauthausen , which was published in 2010 in German translation under the title Freedom came in May . In the German-speaking countries he was best known for the setting of his Mauthausen cantata by Mikis Theodorakis . Kambanellis has created numerous plays and several film scripts, including the scripts of Stella and O drakos (The Dragon). He was one of the most influential Greek artists of the 20th century. Iakovos Kambanellis died on March 29, 2011 in Athens.

Comment on arrest and deportation: When Iakovos Kambanellis wanted to travel to Switzerland via Austria, he was arrested due to his inadequate papers and after remand and interim camp was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp. He did not come to the concentration camp as a resistance fighter, as is often erroneously claimed, but only became one there.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ news.in.gr
  2. ↑ http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_29/03/2011_385020  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in the internet edition of the Greek newspaper I Kathimerini.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kathimerini.gr  
  3. ↑ Kambanellis, Iakovos: Freedom came in May. Review. In: Wiener Zeitung . May 20, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ Jakovos Kambanellis, Freedom came in May. German by Elena Strubakis. Ephelant Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-900766-17-7 . (with CD Mauthausen Cantata : Poems by Iakobos Kambanellis, set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, sung in Greek (Maria Faranturi, conductor: Mikis Theodorakis. Live recording on May 7, 1995 at the Mauthausen Memorial), English (Nadia Weinberg, conductor: Alexandros Karozas) and Hebrew (Elinoar Moav Veniadis, conductor: Yossi Ben-Nun). With a speech by Simon Wiesenthal in German: ISBN 978-3-900766-18-4 , pp. 135 ff.)
personal data
SURNAME Kambanellis, Iakovos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Καμπανέλλης, Ιάκωβος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek playwright, poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Chora , Naxos
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2011
Place of death Athens